Wednesday, February 10, 2016

When a science class was leaving the library yesterday, the teacher instructed the students to do the following when they returned to the classroom:"Grab a Chrome Book and log onto Nearpod.com. I'll put your PIN on the white board."When I was in 8th grade, circa 1978, this entire sentence would have been gobbledygook. It makes me want to construct sentences to say to my students using outdated phrasing that they won't understand. "Hang up the phone and grab some whole milk or Tang from the ice box; I'll stack these records on the Hi-Fi while we alphabetize your index cards so we can type your bibliography on the typewriter."At least I'm wearing a granny square vest my daughter crocheted, so I LOOK as incomprehensible as I'll SOUND!

Librarians always look at me funny when I ask for the card catalog. I then have to backtrack and say, "Can you point me to an OPAC machine rather than a community Internet computer?" But it'll always be the card catalog to me. The Key to the Kingdom.

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